Art in exile: a prison cell as exhibition venue
What form does artistic freedom take in prison? The exhibition Museum of Small Things by exiled Turkish journalist Can Dundar explores the topic. By Ceyda Nurtsch
A glass box, 25 square metres in size, contains a toilet, a bed, a table and chair and a sink – nothing more. This artistic installation is a replica of a prison cell at the high-security Silivri prison in Turkey and is entitled
Prison of Thought. Next door, the exhibition titled
The Museum of Small Things is taking place in a part of Berlin s Maxim Gorki theatre.
Turkey
Germany
Istanbul
Nusaybin
Sanliurfa
Gorki
Nizhegorodskaya-oblast
Russia
Silivri
Syria
Veysel
Sinop